Stationary steam engines, simple and compound; especially as adapted to light and power plants (1902)
Thurston, Robert H(enry), 1839-1903. (from old catalog) · New York, J. Wiley & sons · leaf 91
advantages than the older forms of engines, because theyare especially designed for high speed. The objection to the high speed engine, is the increased risk of wear, andof accident due to their rapid motion, and especially therisk, that when accidents do occur, as they will now andthen in the best… … ELECTRIC LIGHTING PLANTS. Gg a Steam cylinder that only lacked three-eighths of an inchof being truly cylindrical; the builder of the high speedengine of to-day works to the thousandth of an inch, inlongitudinal measurements, and gets his cylindrical journalsexact to the twenty thousandth, perhaps…
Steam-engines
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